usb-keys

[Paul W. Frields]

On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 03:54, Dave Pawson wrote:
> > <grin/> For 1 & 2, I guess I meant "better" in the sense that the
> > hotplug/updfstab method (1) is a way that both makes a more consistent
> > user interface (see comments above), (2) does not depend on the hardware
> > configuration remaining constant between insertions (i.e. what happens
> > if next time you have one or more other USB storage devices plugged in
> > already?), and (3) allows the user to contribute back to the community
> > by entering a bug against either hotplug or kudzu for their particular
> > USB device, so others can benefit.
> 
> OK, I'm convinced! 
> (And I'll expect those comments in the write-up Paul :-)

Hmm, that's a good point. I don't mention the "up side" in the document.
If someone's reviewing a bunch of different how-to docs, they would
probably be interested in knowing why I think my way is a good one. If
we can score points like that in official Fedora docs, then it keeps 'em
coming back. ;-)

> My notes were (sorry if too cryptic)
> <quote>
> mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbflash
>  
> http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1291&highlight=mounted+usb
[...snip...]

Right. That's the way I used to do it before updfstab, too. And there's
no doubt that the venerable way works, it just doesn't give you all the
crunchy goodness of having your browser and permissions all fall into
line too, for whoever owns the console.

[...snip...]
> > Q.v. my BZ entry from 8/1:
> > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=128952
> 
> I note you broke off into Martian half way through that Paul.
> A conversation with ??? Nasrat went the same way on IRC this week.
> I'm beginning to suspect that using Linux for a while does things
> to the vocal chords.
> <quote> I'll also try and keep up with g-v-m and HAL so the
> document can be polished for FC3 </quote>
>   What happended to English?

:-)  Sorry, I was short on time and abbreviating gnome-volume-manager,
which Bill N. noted in his comment directly before. HAL is a
non-Linux-specific acronym, standing for "Hardware Abstraction Layer." I
suppose they talk about this a lot on the Linux kernel mailing list; I
don't have time to keep up with all of that traffic and actually *see*
my family! Hope that doesn't make me too much of a loser.

-- 
Paul W. Frields, RHCE